Chapter 5
As soon as Lin Ran went up to the third floor, she was pulled into the bedroom by Shen Jinghan who was leaning against the wall.
The door slammed shut behind him, and the air pressure in the bedroom was extremely low.
Lin Ran was tense all over, not daring to look at him. She whispered, "I'm sorry, brother. I didn't know he would suddenly attack me."
She didn't know why Shen Jinghan was angry and asked her to come to the third floor in front of her mother, but it was always right to apologize.
Her thick, curly eyelashes trembled, and she looked very aggrieved.
She didn't know that Zhao Mingkai would be so crazy and suddenly want to force himself on her.
Shen Jinghan's handsome face was covered with dark clouds. He pinched her chin and saw that her little face was red and swollen from being beaten. It was shocking to see that the air pressure around him suddenly dropped even lower.
"Take off your clothes." A cold and emotionless voice.
Lin Ran was stunned for a moment, looking at him in disbelief, her little face turning pale.
Chen Jinghan lowered his eyes and began to tear off her coat. Seeing that her body was covered with traces of ambiguity, his eyes suddenly darkened.
Her skin was thin and white, and any rough movement would leave marks. He loved leaving his scent on her.
But now she was filled with the scent of that damn man.
Shen Jinghan's eyes were cold as he checked her arm and saw several bruises.
His face was extremely bad. He dragged her into the bathroom without saying a word and said coldly, "Wash your body clean."
Lin Ran's eyes widened. Seeing his gloomy expression, she didn't dare to say a word. She trembled as she took off her clothes and said, "You, you, get out."
Shen Jinghan leaned against the door, his eyes dark as he sneered, "Where on your body have I not seen?"
Lin Ran bit her lip, turned her back to him in humiliation, took off her clothes with trembling fingers, and sneered: "Brother, you can see it if you want."
Shen Jinghan's expression changed, and he walked out of the bathroom with a sullen look.
Lin Ran heard the noise behind him and breathed a sigh of relief. As expected, he couldn't stand hearing those two words. For the elegant and graceful Shen Jinghan, the word "brother-sister incest" was a dark history, a shame, and a stain.
This person cannot tolerate even the slightest flaw in his perfect life.
If that was the case, she didn't understand why he was with her back then, and for two years at that.
Lin Ran took a hasty shower, and the water got on her wound, causing her to gasp in pain.
She didn't dare use the bath products in Shen Jinghan's bathroom, fearing that others would notice something, so she just rinsed with clean water and then put on her clothes and came out.
Shen Jinghan was not in the room.
Lin Ran wiped her wet long hair while looking at his bedroom.
The black bedroom is so cold and desolate that it looks like no one lives there.
She seldom came to Shen Jinghan's bedroom. Even when they were in love, Shen Jinghan would not sleep in the same bed with her. They usually had sex in places like the study, bathroom and sofa.
She was young and frivolous at that time, and was blinded by love. She never thought there was anything wrong. Looking back now, it was just evidence that he didn't love her.
He only had desire and possession for her, not love.
Lin Ran suppressed all her emotions and walked out of the bedroom. There was no one outside the corridor.
She knocked on the study door, but no one answered.
The study door is not locked.
A bright light flashed in Lin Ran's eyes. A fleeting opportunity was right in front of him.
*
In the side hall, Shen Jinghan was sipping coffee with an expressionless face.
Assistant Fu Nian reported in a low voice: "Director Shen, the information of the Zhao brothers and sisters has been found, and they don't have any background or origin.
Zhao Yu is Shan Zhiming's new mistress. Zhao Mingkai, divorced twice and with a history of domestic violence, used his connections to the Shan family to open a shell company and engage in the antique business, secretly helping the Shan family launder money.
Two words: scumbag.
Three words: domestic violence man.
Anyway, this guy is not a good person.
Otherwise, he wouldn't do such a thing.
When the incident happened, he was reporting on his work, and then he saw Director Shen's face suddenly darken, and without a word he smashed the jade cabbage paperweight, and then the sound of ghosts and wolves howling came from the small garden.
Not being crushed to death is considered a light punishment.
"Mr. Shen, do you want to deal with this matter?" Fu Nian looked at his face and asked cautiously.
Zhao Mingkai is just a small character. If the Shan family uses the incident of injuring someone as an excuse to attack Director Shen, the matter can be a big deal or a small one.
Shen Jinghan raised his thin lips and sneered, "There are man-eating ghosts inside and outside the garden. They really need to be dealt with. Send the evidence of the Zhao brothers and sisters' money laundering directly to the relevant departments."
Fu Nian lowered his eyes. Director Shen was indeed angry. He was beating the dog and its owner as well!
In recent years, the Shan family has indeed become more and more excessive.
"Yes." Fu Nian left Chen Garden.
Shen Jinghan stood in front of the window, looking at the azaleas in the garden, and called out with a sullen face, "Uncle Lin."
The butler appeared mysteriously and whispered, "Young Master."
"Replace the lawn outside, and clean up the garden, and replace everything."
The butler lowered his eyes: "Yes."
The eldest young master's mysophobia is still as deep as ever, but the people who need to be replaced the most are the people in Chen Garden.
It should have been replaced more than 20 years ago, otherwise it would not have disgusted the young master for so many years.
Shen Jinghan took a sip of coffee with a sullen face and calmed himself down.
He has endured for so many years, he doesn't mind enduring for two more years. What he wants is to hit the target with one blow and settle accounts completely.
Shen Jinghan looked at the time and went upstairs.
*
In the study, Lin Ran looked at the brand new safe in front of him, a thin layer of sweat seeping out of his forehead.
The safe had been replaced. This was not the old-style safe she had seen that year.
The safe contains things that Shen Jinghan considers most important, such as things related to his biological mother. As for antiques, gold, and cash, they have never caught his eye.
Shen Jinghan has a bookcase dedicated to storing cash. It is a full cabinet and is never locked. However, there is a room on the top floor that is always locked. It is said that it contains his biological mother's belongings.
No one dared to enter.
Lin Ran entered the password with trembling fingers. The moment the safe opened, she was stunned for a moment.
The password turned out to be correct.
Didn't he change the safe, but not the combination?
Lin Ran's face turned pale, and memories of the past came roaring back.
It was their first summer together, and the school organized a sketching trip to the countryside.
For a whole month, Shen Jinghan didn't send her a single message.
When they were together, she was the one who gave everything, and he rarely responded. Nine out of ten text messages he didn't reply to.
She felt aggrieved and was afraid that he would be annoyed, so she didn't dare to send him messages afterwards. The two of them lost contact for a month.
When she returned to Chenyuan, it was already the end of summer vacation.
That night, Shen Jinghan pressed her into the study with a cold face and refused to let her go even when she cried.
That same night, he opened the safe in front of her and asked her to pick a box from it.
She didn't dare to pick or ask for it.
Shen Jinghan laughed coldly and said it was up to her.
Past memories are like knives, cutting into flesh.
Lin Ran came back to her senses, her face pale.
Shen Jinghan had only entered the password once in front of her, perhaps because he thought she was stupid and couldn't remember it, or because he thought she didn't dare to touch the safe. There was no other reason.
She opened the safe.
The upper layer of the safe is full of documents, and the lower layer is filled with a pile of rosewood boxes.
Lin Ran quickly opened one of the brocade boxes, and suddenly the room was filled with shimmering jewels and watery emeralds, so beautiful that she was speechless.
Her heart was beating like a drum, and she put the box back where it belonged with trembling fingers, and continued to look through the other boxes.
There was no seal. There was even an official seal in the safe, but no personal seal.
Lin Ran was filled with despair. When he heard footsteps in the corridor outside, he quickly closed the safe.
The door of the study was opened from the outside.
Shen Jinghan was wearing dark grey casual clothes at home, standing at the door, looking at her with dim eyes.
Her face turned pale and all the hair on her body stood up.
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